Quotes by Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires s >>

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: >>

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which sub >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to >>

A wicked book cannot repent. >>

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds >>

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.